Is Walmart welcome in Woolwich? No thanks. Its business model is too expensive to taxpayers. Like good capitalists, the controlling Walton family likes to capitalize on state and federal assistance to the working poor.

According to Forbes magazine: “Legislation is now making its way through the California legislature — with the support of consumer groups, unions and, interestingly, physicians — that would levy a fine of up to $6,000 on employers like Wal-Mart for every full-time employee that ends up on the state’s Medi-Cal program — the California incarnation of Medicaid.”

Can we get that in Woolwich?

It looks like Walmart is providing few full-time jobs, even at minimum wage, out there in California. And there will be few to none in Woolwich.

The Washington, D.C., city council passed a “living wage” law aimed at big retailers that would require minimum pay of $12.50 an hour. Walmart’s response? In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Walmart stated that it would put the brakes on three planned Washington stores and re-evaluate three already under construction.

Does D.C. really need these carpetbaggers? Does Woolwich? Does America need this kind of corporate welfare where the jobs supplied to the serfs require public medical aid and food stamps?

Is the low-wage-model economy right for America as the wealth and prosperity of our nation trickles up, not down, as promised?

Also, if the massive Woolwich project is approved, does neighboring Swedesboro become a ghost town? My advice to the mayor and whoever has final approval is, don’t do it. No PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) corporate welfare program.

Walmart is not a good corporate citizen and gives deregulated capitalism a well-deserved bad name.